John Hope Franklin

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John Hope Franklin was a pioneering American historian and civil rights advocate renowned for his groundbreaking scholarship on African American history and race in the United States.

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instanceOf American historian
author
civil rights activist
historian
university professor
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts from Fisk University
Master of Arts from Harvard University
PhD in history from Harvard University
awardReceived Bancroft Prize
Charles Frankel Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Spingarn Medal
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1915-01-02
dateOfDeath 2009-03-25
educatedAt Fisk University
Harvard University
employer Brooklyn College
Duke University
Howard University
University of Chicago
ethnicGroup African American
linked to: Black Americans
familyName Franklin
fieldOfWork African American history
United States history
civil rights
history
fullName John Hope Franklin
gender male
givenName John
knownFor civil rights advocacy
research on race in the United States
scholarship on African American history
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Historical Association
American Philosophical Society
notableWork From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
George Washington Williams: A Biography
Reconstruction after the Civil War
linked to: Reconstruction era

The Emancipation Proclamation
occupation author
historian
professor
placeOfBirth Rentiesville, Oklahoma, United States
placeOfDeath Durham, North Carolina, United States
positionHeld Chair of the Department of History at Brooklyn College
James B. Duke Professor of History at Duke University
President of the American Historical Association
Professor of History at the University of Chicago

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